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Subject: Re: [9fans] Virtual memory & paging
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Date: Mon,  4 Feb 2002 13:46:57 -0800
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>
>By these definitions, it is possible (easy even) to build a system
>with virtual memory but no paging.  Even I can do it.
>
>-rob

I have an amateur question: how would that work?  would the compilers
need to cooperate for this to work?  How would something like a stray
pointer be handled?

I'm not sure if  "no paging" means no hardware memory management of
any kind.